My husband and I did something incredible last Thanksgiving, or at least incredible to us: we scored airfare to Michigan at an 85% discount over the holidays. Our family gathering was really nice, and even more so because we were able to get around Michigan’s very expensive airline market. For us to fly there and […]
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All over the country, people have gotten “gazelle intense” on paying off their debts. We’re not talking about servicing their debts by paying the minimums and subsequent interest due each month, but rather obliterating their debts years ahead of when the creditors want them to be paid off. My husband and I did the same […]
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The other day while reading the Get Rich Slowly blog, a reader’s comment struck me as something I needed to expand on. I can’t seem to find the comment again, but to sum it up: a reader was tired of hearing frugal bloggers talk about borrowing others’ belongings without ever mentioning that they should lend […]
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A few weeks ago it occurred to me that we had not checked our Central A/C filter for at least a year. Whether it was true or not, it seemed like the unit was churning for extended periods of time (read: extra money leaving our pockets) in order to cool off to our target of […]
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About a week ago, I had enough. All of the quirky workarounds in our home were slowly draining me of more mental energy than it would take to actually fix them: the toilet in our main bathroom that you have to remember to jiggle the handle because most of the time it “runs”, the front […]
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Over two years ago I published a post detailing how someone tried to scam us out of money on Craigslist. We had listed an item for sale and were approached by a buyer who was going to have their freight company pick it up for shipment to New Hampshire. This person sent a fake email […]
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I’ve noticed something: when it comes to money, people tend to be loosey-goosey during the good times—taking shark-sized bites out of their monthly cash flow by increasing their debt load—and then try to unload everything they possibly can to stay afloat during the bad times. It’s one extreme to the other: Good times = lease […]
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Pop culture stories played over and over again through various media—books, radio, television—typically entail someone in a predicament who could move forward if only they had fill in the blank. Mentally or physically, the situation looks bleak at best and generally impossible without that one thing that they (or anyone who would find themselves in […]
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